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| 1620 | Peregrine White was born aboard the Mayflower in Massachusetts Bay - the first child born of English parents in present-day New England. |
| 1789 | New Jersey became the first state to ratify the Bill of Rights. |
| 1889 | Astronomer Edwin Hubble was born in Marshfield, Mo. |
| 1910 | Revolution broke out in Mexico. |
| 1925 | Robert F. Kennedy was born in Brookline, Mass. |
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| 1945 | Twenty-four Nazi leaders went on trial before an international war crimes tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany. |
| 1947 | Britain's future queen, Princess Elizabeth, married Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh, in Westminster Abbey in London. |
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| 1966 | The musical "Cabaret," with music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb, opened on Broadway. |
| 1969 | The Nixon administration announced a halt to residential use of the pesticide DDT as part of a total phase-out. |
| 1975 | Spain's Gen. Francisco Franco died after nearly four decades of absolute rule. |
| 1995 | Princess Diana admitted during an interview broadcast on BBC TV that she had been unfaithful to Prince Charles. |
| 1996 | House Republicans chose Newt Gingrich to be speaker for a second term. |
| 2001 | Federal health officials approved sale of the world's first contraceptive patch, Ortho-Evra. |
| 2003 | Singer Michael Jackson was booked on suspicion of child molestation in Santa Barbara, Calif. (He was later acquited.) |
